How to escape square brackets?

[Dieter]

(07-16-2016 03:12 PM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  You can enter an HTML character code.
ie: zero width space is: &​#8203;

Ah, that's good to know. Not only for this purpose.

(07-16-2016 03:12 PM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  test[&​#8203;/b] produces

[b]test[​/b]

As you can see here, this works fine... unless some [b]bold text follows. ;-)
Maybe the best idea is including the zero-space character both in [​b] and [/​b].

Dieter